George de Forest Brush was born in Danbury, Connecticut in 1855. He received his art instruction at the National Academy of New York, and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Brush developed a highly realistic style, and on his return traveled to Wyoming where he lived and painted with the Arapahoe and Shoshone Indians. He also lived in Montana for several years, painting the Crow Indians. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Brush chose to stay away from the dramatized western scenes that were popular, instead choosing to depict his Native American subjects as they were in everyday life. When he returned to New York, Brush found work as a teacher at the Art Students League, and painted mother and child scenes which brought him commercial success. For more information on George de Forest Brush and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

Margaret Bruton was born in New York and raised in San Francisco, where she attended the San Francisco Art Institute. Having earned a scholarship for further study, Bruton attended the Art Students League in New York. Upon her return to California in 1918, Bruton began studying with Armin Hansen in Monterey, where the Bruton family would eventually settle. Though she made frequent extended painting excursions, Bruton is remembered for her contributions to the Monterey and San Francisco arts communtities. For more information on Margaret Bruton and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

Claude Buck was born in New York in 1890, and received his early instruction from his artist father. A child prodigy, Claude entered the National Academy of Design at the age of 14, staying on for the next 8 years. His works caught the eye of a Chicago art dealer, whose representation prompted his move there in 1919, where he participated in a number of exhibitions and one-man shows. In order to be closer to his son, Buck and his wife moved to Santa Cruz, California, in 1943. Buck is best known for his exquisite portraits and still lifes, both showing Asian design influences, and for his introspective symbolist paintings. For more information on Claude Buck and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

Norton Bush was born in Rochester, New York, in 1834. He received his art training from Jasper Cropsey and James Harris. Bush was also an acquaintance of Frederic Church, who inspired Bush to paint tropical scenes. Heading for San Francisco in 1853, Bush crossed the Isthmus at Panama, which provided much subject matter. Bush kept a studio in San Francisco, and served as Director of the local Art Association. Bush earned fame for his early, tropical works, while his later seascapes were less popular. He died in Oakland in 1894. For more information on Norton Bush and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

George Carlson was an western illustrator in based in New York and Connecticut. Examples of his works can be found at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, and at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center in Colorado. For more information on George Carlson and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

George Catlin was born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1796, where he grew up fascinated by stories of the Native Americans. Catlin studied law, and was a practicing attorney for several years, before quitting to pursue painting. Catlin was a self-taught painter before entering the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the National Academy of Design in 1823. Still fascinated by the American West, Catlin arrived in St. Louis in 1830 with the intention of making extended painting expeditions. Catlin spent the next eight years traveling among dozens of tribes of the American West. He is remembered as the first artist of note to record the Plains Indians, and his was the first finely painted record of tribes west of the Mississippi. For more information on George Catlin and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

Frank Tolles Chamberlin was born in San Francisco in 1873, and moved with his family to Vermont on 1879. Showing talent at an early age, Chamberlin was enrolled at the Art Students League in New York. Success in a mural competition earned Chamberlin a scholarship for four years of study at the American Academy in Rome. Upon his return to the states, he taught at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design and the Columbia University School of Architecture. In 1919, Chamberlin moved to Pasadena, California, accepting teaching positions at the Otis and Chouinard Institutes. Chamberlin worked in both oil and watercolor, and his paintings reflect his conservative, classical training. For more information on Frank Tolles Chamberlin and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

A native of San Francisco, Russell Chatham has been an active artist in Montana since 1972. A talented, self-taught painter, illustrator, and writer, his works are often highly evocative with soft tonal qualities. For more information on Russell Chatham and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

Alice Chittenden was born in Brockport, New York, in 1859, and moved to San Francisco at an early age. Encouraged in her art studies, Chittenden began studying at the San Francisco School of Design in 1877. Chittended would remain a life-long resident of San Francisco, eventually accepting a teaching post at the School of Design, where she taught for 40 years. Known for her floral still lifes, Chittenden once took on the task of creating several hundred oil on paper paintings cataloging the wildflowers of California. For more information on Alice Chittenden and other artists we represent, please visit the artist index on our gallery website

Popularly referred to at times in his homeland as the “Remington of the Canadian West,” and “the dean of Canadian historical artists,” John Innes is known for his paintings of Indians, cowboys, wildlife, and the early “Pioneer West” of Canada. Innes was born in 1863 in London Ontario, and was educated in Ontario and in England, where he excelled in design, drafting, and painting.

Upon returning to Canada, Innes headed west, blazing a trail ahead of the Canadian Pacific Railway. His artistic ability and adventurous spirit enabled him to join a survey party in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, where he created maps and sketches with Ross, Mann and Holt. Following his service with the company, Innes took up ranching and horse wrangling. In 1885 while riding as a cowboy on his own Alberta ranch, he drew cartoons for various periodicals, and later published his own newspaper in Banff titled “Mountain Echoes.”

After twelve years in the West, Innes was back in Toronto where he worked as a writer and illustrator for Canadian Magazine, and exhibited with the Ontario Society of Artists. In 1905 he traveled to Vancouver by pack train, painting en route. Innes’ desire was to create a series of works depicting an era of Canadian history when the Indian, fur trader and buffalo held undisputed reign, before the coming of the cowboy and the farmer. The resulting series, “Epic of the West,” exhibited throughout the country, was purchased by the Hudson’s Bay Company, and now hangs in Winnipeg.

Before finally settling in Vancouver, BC, Innes enjoyed a five-year stint as a staff artist for the Hearst Newspapers in NYC. Remembered as a true bohemian and frontiersman, Innes once said, “In the cow camps, in the lodges of the long-dead chiefs…on the mountain tops, or out on the Prairies criss-crossed with buffalo trails, I have learned the lore of Western Canada.”